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Originally Posted by ShaolinFlame
That's quite interesting, and makes a lot of sense.
I take it that the industry of server hosting is still rather decentralized and hodgepodge, so not a lot of companies have that volume of hardware available, let alone more business to run off them after? Why not go through 5, 10, 20, or 50?
I'm just thinking with the sheer volume of servers sitting in warehouses everywhere it should be possible. The unorganized state of the industries hardware side is the culprit. There must be a better way to efficiently act on this massive influx of information (although screaming 'buy more servers and single player1111!!!one' in allcaps on blizzards website is probably not it).
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I've been thinking about this, and wondering if they are using some sort of Cloud services to provision servers? If so, it would all be virtual anyways and they could easily spin up how ever many servers they needed to handle the load, assuming the hosting provider has sufficient capacity.